Days of Religious Significance – Catholic Cultural Communities

COMMUNITY FEAST DATE

Filipino Feast of the Black Nazarene (Cristo Negro El Salvador, Panama - October) 9 January

Ukrainian The Three Holy Hierarchs (St. Basil, St. Gregory, St. John Chrysostom) 30 January

Croatian Saint Blaise/Sv Vlaho (Dubrovnik) 3 February

South Sudanese Saint Josephine Bakhita 8 February

Maronite Saint Maroun 9 February

French Our Lady of Lourdes 11 February

Irish Saint Patrick 17 March

Italian San Giuseppe (Saint Joseph’s Day) 19 March

Melkite Holy and Glorious Pascha - Fesakh - Hajmeh (on the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21) March

Maronite Saint Rafqa 23 March

Filipino San Pedro Calungsod 2 April

Argentinian San Expedito 19 April

Italian Three Saints – Alfio, Filadelfo & Cirino May, 1st Sunday

Czech Republic Infant Jesus of Prague (or Santo Niño venerated worldwide) May, 1st Sunday (or Jan)

Chinese Our Lady of China May, 2nd Sunday

Portuguese Our Lady of Fatima 13 May

Italian Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (Father to the Migrants) 1 June

Uganda Feast of Charles Lwanga and Companions (Uganda Martyrs) 3 June

Indian Saint Thomas, Apostle of India 3 July

Papua New Guinean Blessed Peter To Rot 7 July

Colombian Our Lady of Chiquinquirá (patroness) 9 July

Chinese The 120 Martyrs of China 9 July

Chilean Santa Teresa de los Andes (born as Juana Fernández Solar) 13 July

Maronite Saint Charbel July, 3rd Sunday

Indian Saint Alphonsa (first saint from India) 28 July

El Salvadoran The Divine Saviour of the World and Our Lady of Peace (patrons) 3 August

Australian Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop 8 August

Bolivian Our Lady of Copacabana (patroness) 5 August (or 2 February)

Chilean San Alberto Hurtado 18 August

Peruvian Saint Rose of Lima (patroness) 23 August (or 30 August)

Polish Our Lady of Czestochowa 26 August

Ukrainian Dormition of the Blessed Mother of God 28 August (Julian calendar)

Albanian Feast Day of Mother Teresa 5 September

Venezuelan Our Lady of Coromoto (patroness) 8 September (or 11 Sep, 2 Feb)

Indian Our Lady of Vailankanni 8 September

Iraqi Eid Al- Salib (the Feast of Holy Cross) 13 September

Korean Saint Andrew Kim and Korean Martyrs 20 September

Italian Padre Pio of Pietrelcina 23 September

Filipino Saint Lorenzo Ruiz 27 September

Ukrainian Protection of the Theotokos (Mother of God) Pokrova 1 October (Julian calendar)

Guatemalan Our Lady of the Rosary (patroness) 7 October

Brazilian Our Lady of Aparecida 12 October

Timor Leste Our Lady of Aitara 16 October

Colombian Saint Laura Montoya y Upegui 21 October

Peruvian The Lord of Miracles (patron) 18, 19 & 28 October

Uruguayan Our Lady of 33 Orientals (patroness) 9 November

Vietnamese Martyrs of Vietnam 24 November

Congolese Blessed Anuarite Nengapata Clementina 1 December

Melkite Feast of St Barbara 4 December

Albanian Shen’Kolli i Dimnit (Saint Nicholas of Winter) (Eve of) 6 December; 9 May

Mexican Our Lady of Guadalupe (patroness, Latin American Brisbane Chaplaincy) 12 December

Paraguayan Our Lady of the Miracles of Caacupé (patroness) 8 December

Mexican Saint Juan Diego of Cuauhtlatoatzin (2nd patron) 9 December